General gardening Seasons

Best In Season

This page is for the best articles by Season, followed with Plants by Type on Ilona’s Garden Journal

Spring

The Season Begins

Fickle Spring, Ephemeral Beauty

Thoughts On A Spring Garden

Containers That Caught My Eye

Considering Birds

Making More Plants

Spring Beauty Is Useful

Burgeoning Spring (crabapples and viburnum)

When Should I Start My Garden?

Signs of Spring

Summer

When the Garden Becomes an Ogre

Mulch For Moisture

The Garden In July

August Gardening: Ten Suggestions

The Scented Garden

Life As A Bowl of Cherries

Marathon Gardening: Garden Renovation

Garden Disappointment

Mad Dogs and Midwesterners

Autumn

Autumn and Orchards (apples)

Autumn chores- and more!

Apple Cider Time

Autumn Abundance Recipes

Savoring The Autumn

Garden Thoughts

Rest and Reaping

A Few Thoughts on Daffodils

Winter

Ten Winter Features

The Cold Zone, Zone Maps

The coming of winter

Predicting Weather

I was going to garden

Getting Seeds Started

Seed-starting, January Thoughts

Gardening,Global Warming,and El Nino

Garden Transitions

Late Winter Siftings

Old Garden Writers

Holiday Plants (notes)

A Winter’s Poem

Gardener’s Wishlist

Christmas Fragrance

January- Month of Two Faces

Plants by type

Annuals

Shirley Poppies

Four O’ Clocks

Five Top Hosta Choices

Bulbs

Tulip Trials (short post)

Perennials

My Top Ten Perennial Choices

Hellebore Niger

More on Hellebores

Lavender Plants from Cuttings

Shrubs

Beauty Bush, Kolkwitzia amabilis

Lonicera Fragrantissima

Pruning Your Mugo Pine

Purple Sand Cherry

Trees

Crab Apple Trees

Plant Propagation

Propagation of Softwood Cuttings

Making More Plants

More Lavender Plants

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